SubjectsLinguistics / Cognitive linguistics

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Motivation in Language: A cognitive perspective

Edited by Grzegorz Drożdż and Barbara Taraszka-Drożdż

Why do languages take the forms they do, and why do speakers choose particular expressions to construct meaning? This volume addresses these questions from a cognitive-linguistic perspective, viewing motivation as the outcome of interacting linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Across twelve… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 83] 2027. vi, 314 pp. + index

Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics

New Vistas in Research on Metaphor and Metonymy: Their contexts and interaction across discourse types and modalities

Edited by Robert Kiełtyka, Mario Brdar, Marcin Kudła and Goran Milić

New Vistas in Research on Metaphor and Metonymy: Their contexts and interaction across discourse types and modalities, edited by Robert Kiełtyka, Mario Brdar, Marcin Kudła, and Goran Milić, revisits a research programme first mapped out at ESSE Debrecen in 1997 and its landmark proceedings… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 82] 2027. vi, 297 pp. + index

Other subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

Thinking Politically: Cognitive linguistic insights into political discourse

Edited by Anastasios Vogiatzis

This volume brings together research at the intersection of Cognitive Linguistics and political discourse analysis. The volume explores how political meaning is constructed, negotiated, and contested through a range of cognitive mechanisms, including metaphor, metonymy, irony, image schemas,… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 22] 2027. viii, 329 pp. + index

Other subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Contrasting English and Polish Emotion Clusters

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Paul A. Wilson

Understanding how emotions are clustered and labelled across languages offers fascinating insights into cultural differences and universals. This book delves into this very topic, analysing similarities and contrasts between Polish and English grouping and categorising emotions.The book combines a… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 80] 2026. xxii, 382 pp.

Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Theoretical linguistics

Personification in Language and Thought: Conceptual models, lexicogrammatical structures, and distributional patterns in Hungarian

Gábor Simon

This monograph offers the first comprehensive account of personification in Hungarian, a subtle yet pervasive feature of everyday cognition and language. Combining cognitive linguistics with corpus-based and corpus-driven analyses, it reveals how personifying meaning is conceptually structured,… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 27] 2026. xv, 275 pp.

Other subjects Cognition and language | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages

Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach

Edited by Rita Brdar Szabó and Mario Brdar

The last two decades have seen a series of publications focused on time. So, why another book? It now appears that a kairos moment has arrived to reconsider from a more holistic point of view the manifold ways in which we think about time and talk about it. The book is divided into four major… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 81] 2026. viii, 477 pp.

Other subjects Cognition and language | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics